5-Letter Words Matching _ _ A _ Y

142 valid 5-letter words match the pattern _ _ A _ Y, 23 of which are common words. 2 green letters locked in.

23 common words142 valid words

Common Words (23)

Words most likely to be the answer.

crazy

weary

beady

leaky

ovary

leafy

shady

ready

diary

heady

snaky

meaty

gravy

shaky

scaly

heavy

teary

foamy

mealy

scary

flaky

soapy

loamy

Other Valid 5-Letter Words (119)

Valid as guesses, but unlikely to be the answer.

adagy

adaty

agamy

agaty

alary

amary

amaty

araby

arany

ataxy

beaky

beamy

beany

bialy

blady

blazy

brady

braky

braxy

chany

chary

chazy

clary

clavy

coady

coaly

coaxy

cracy

crany

crapy

crary

deady

deary

doaty

featy

flamy

flary

flawy

flaxy

foaly

frary

geary

glady

glaky

glary

glazy

goaty

gracy

grady

gramy

grapy

guary

healy

heapy

heazy

hoagy

hoary

ikary

italy

jeany

keary

keavy

khayy

leady

leahy

leany

leary

leavy

lhary

meany

nealy

oracy

orary

otary

peaky

peary

peasy

peaty

peavy

phagy

phany

platy

prady

quaky

reamy

reasy

sealy

seamy

seary

seavy

shaly

shapy

shawy

slaby

slaky

slaty

snapy

snary

soaky

soary

spacy

spary

stacy

stagy

stary

swamy

teaey

teasy

teaty

thawy

toady

tracy

trady

trasy

unary

vealy

weaky

whaly

woady

What These Words Have in Common

Letter patterns across all 142 matches.

Most common letters

a142

y142

r52

e46

l39

s30

t25

h22

d20

c20

Vowel distribution

0 with no vowels
70 with 1 unique vowel
72 with 2 unique vowels
0 with 3+ unique vowels

Most common endings

-ry · 30 words
-dy · 15 words
-ky · 12 words
-ly · 12 words
-ty · 11 words

Strategy

23 answers fit. Look at the most common remaining letters above and choose a guess that probes the unknown positions.

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